IMPORTANT NOTICE!!! PLEASE READ!!!: This is your last chance, hasn't ANYBODY realized it yet?! Well, if anyone gets what the chapters mean, I MIGHT write a sequel. If not, I'll end it next chapter.
"Sure you didn't, Neji." The kid laughed. Neji scowled.
"Naruto… Why did you follow me?" He asked. Even after all those years, he's still had a tiny vendetta towards him. Who wouldn't if you were in such a situation at that time?
"Because Neji, you're my best friend after Sasuke, Sakura, Lee, Iruka-Sen-" Neji cut off.
"We, no, you are attracting attention. Get off the person and MOVE." Neji harshly whispered to him. Naruto realized this and quickly got off. The thief scrambled away, but left the piece of paper, which Naruto got to before Neji did. "What's this? Don't for-"
"Shut up!" Neji wrenched the paper out of Naruto's hands and dragged him here and there until they were alone in a dark alley.
"Explain." Neji said as soon as they were alone and Naruto had come out of the genjutsu.
"Explain what?" Naruto asked clearly confused.
"Explain what are you doing here?!" Neji hissed.
"Didn't I already tell you that?" Naruto asked puzzled. Neji gave him a cold stare. "Oh, right… Uh, because I thought that you might die, or nearly die again (think chapter 198 I think. HE CAN'T DIE!) and because um, because, er…"
"Forget it. Go home Naruto." Neji sighed as he turned to go.
"Sorry, can't. Don't have one anymore." Naruto told him. Neji stopped. Half of him was filled with frustration, half of him just wanted to die, not literally though.
"Just, just…" He left.
-X-
"But Neji!" Naruto yelled after the disappearing form. Neji took absolutely no heed. "Geez, why are you so stubborn?"
Naruto decided that he should let Neji do it his way this time, and preceded on to find a restaurant. After all, who's heard of a ninja working full power on an empty stomach?
-X-
"What would you like sir?" The brunette waitress asked Naruto.
"Do you have Ramen? Boy I miss that stuff." Naruto answered almost a second after he was asked.
The waitress seemed rather taken back by this answer, but nonetheless, returned him. "Yes, what flavor would you like?"
"One of every flavor." Naruto answered, suddenly happy. Even though everything was as stressful as can be, Ramen always cheered him up
"Uh, sure, right away." The waitress answered rather surprised by Naruto's big appetite.
"Surprised?" Naruto cheerily laughed. It was a small restaurant, not fancy, but not completely broken down either. People were too busy talking to take heed of anything else, so no faces turned his way, not that he would have minded if there were.
"Um, not really. I guess that's because I knew a person who was just like you." The waitress sheepishly answered.
"Oh?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah, his name was, uh, um… Naruto I believe." The waitress answered.
"Well it's your lucky day, that's me!" Naruto laughed before he realized what he was saying. "Hey! Who are you?"
"Me?" She asked. "Uh… I'm not suppose to tell…"
"Awww… Come on! I might know you!" Naruto pestered. And if I do, why's this kid in Water Country? Oh, wait, Water Country… I JUST BLEW MY COVER!!!! Argh…
"I think you do, ever heard of Rock Lee, and Hyuuga Neji? I'm third to the party, literally." She sighed as she went back into the kitchen.
"Wait! Hold it!" Naruto yelled afterwards, but everything arrived soon after, delivered by some other waitress. TenTen… That girl on Team Nine. What's she doing here?
-X-
Neji looked at the torn end page that belonged to TenTen's diary. The stupid pickpocket had crumpled it, much to Neji's despise. He held that in his right hand while he once again scanned the mission. The paper of the scroll was transparent against the crackling fire, like lightly glowing ambers, just like it should be.
Why is it always me? How- Why is my life so, so, miserable?
He sighed as he read those words she had written yet again, never tired of reading them, except, for he found, he couldn't. It wasn't transparent like the other paper, it seemed to block out the light completely, unless…
"What?" Neji said to himself, blinking a few times. "Two pages?"
-X-
"Wait! TenTen!!!" Naruto huffed as he chased after the older brunette. He followed her right out the back door as soon as he shoved down his Ramen.
She turned around with a puzzled expression. "What?" She asked.
"I've just realized, what are you doing here?" Naruto panted.
"I live here, and I should've asked you the same thing." TenTen told him.
"You live here? I thought, I thought…"
"I was born here. I moved to Konoha, but since this is my birthplace, I'm technically a ninja of Water Country." She sighed, tracing a circle with the tip of her sandal. (You know I'm making this up, but it's so much more interesting and easier this way.) "And like I said, what are you doing here?"
"Me? I followed a friend of yours because I over heard Sakura saying she gave him a wrong mission and now he's single handedly hunting down a group of assassin." Naruto puffed out.
"A friend? As in like Lee?" TenTen asked hopefully.
"No, not him, Neji." Naruto answered.
"Neji…"
Sorry it was ever so short. Everything goes to the last chapter. Beware, it's not happy.